The Role of Borrowings in the Development of Swahili Vocabulary (on the Material of Arabic Loan Words)
- Authors: Semenkova LA1
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Affiliations:
- Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia
- Issue: No 3 (2013)
- Pages: 53-57
- Section: Articles
- URL: https://journals.rudn.ru/semiotics-semantics/article/view/7450
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Abstract
The article deals with the problems of Swahili vocabulary development by means of borrowings from the Arab language. A lot of borrowed words and word combinations belonging to different semantic groups are being analyzed here.
About the authors
L A Semenkova
Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia
Email: kaf_yazik_rudn@mail.ru
The Department of Foreign Languages The Faculty of Law